WHY LANYARD

Built for the organiser, not sold to your exhibitors over your head.

Most lead retrieval is sold direct to exhibitors, or bolted onto an event platform you did not want. Lanyard is one licence, held by you, that every stand at your show can use.

Who buys it
Each exhibitor buys their own, or it comes bundled in an event platform
You buy one licence and give it to every stand at your show
What it costs
Quoted per device, per exhibitor or per event, after a sales call
£3,600 a year, published, unlimited events and exhibitors
Getting started
Demo, proposal, onboarding call, contract
Card, fourteen-day trial, running the same afternoon
Hardware
Handsets to hire, hand out, charge and chase back
The phone already in the exhibitor's pocket
What is in the badge code
Usually the visitor's contact details, readable by anyone
A random code and nothing else
When the wi-fi fails
Retry later, and hope
Saved to the phone and confirmed before the network is touched
What stops the spam
Left to the exhibitor and whatever they signed
A contact licence you write, that every exhibitor accepts, with access that expires
Proving the event worked
Scan counts, if you ask
Attendance, reach and a stand-by-stand breakdown, built in

Based on publicly listed features of comparable UK and US lead retrieval products, September 2026.

Four things we decided differently.

1

The price is on the website

Nobody else in this category will tell you what it costs without a call first. We think that wastes a fortnight of your time and tells you something about how the rest of the relationship will go.

It also means you can put the cost in a budget line before you have spoken to anyone.

2

The badge gives nothing away

A Lanyard code is random. Photograph a badge, post it on LinkedIn, leave it on a table — none of it exposes a visitor's details, because their details were never in it.

Contact data moves only when a signed-in exhibitor scans that badge in person, and only to them.

3

Offline is a design, not a promise

Scans are written to the phone and confirmed on screen before anything is sent. Exhibition halls oversubscribe their wi-fi and 4G dies at coffee breaks; the app is built for that being normal.

Each scan carries an identifier made on the device, so a queue that uploads twice cannot double-count.

4

Visitors are protected, so they say yes

A contact licence that you write and every exhibitor accepts, with access that expires on a date you choose. Ours is the strict default: one email, one follow-up, one call.

School staff and public-sector buyers are the most spammed audience there is. Telling them the rules up front is why they hand over the badge.

What Lanyard is not.

Worth knowing before you start a trial, rather than three weeks in. If any of these is a deal‑breaker, we would rather tell you now.

Not a full event management platform
No ticketing, no floor plans, no session scheduling, no apps for visitors. It does badges and lead retrieval, and expects you to keep using whatever you already have for the rest.
No CRM integrations yet
Exhibitors export a CSV that opens cleanly in Excel and imports into anything. Direct Salesforce and HubSpot sync is on the list, not in the product.
Card printers are not supported
Badges print as a PDF on ordinary office printers. If you print onto plastic cards on a Zebra or Evolis, talk to us before you start a trial.
We are new
Lanyard is a young product built with a working exhibition organiser rather than in a boardroom. That means it is sharp where it matters and thin in places; the list above is the honest version.

See it against your own event.

Import last year's registration list and print a test badge in under ten minutes.